He should have no problem getting some major welfare reform passed. I like what they did in maine. They made recipients/applicants either work part time for a minimum 24 hrs per week, enroll in a vocational program, or volunteer for a minimum of 24 hrs per month in order to be eligible for benefits.
After that bill was passed, enrollees dropped from 12k to 2500.
Wow, so much hilarity you mean? They're taking back what your descendants stole, it was bound to happen. Also Catholic people have more children...except here in French Canada in Quebec where when we got out of the Vatican's total control in '61 (yeah), and even then, I had "Sciences Religieuses" in secondary education, I could have changed it to Morals (basically philosophy) when I was 14, but only got sick of the very elderly teachers doing that, who also had to cut one of their weekly course for MTS, which was basically sex education, drug education (and it wasn't like DARE at all) and other social issues that affect teens, bullying, but mostly the popular throw-away word back in the late 90's here, was "taxage" "taxing", which meant give me your discman or we're kicking your ass, shit like that. I never ever saw it happen, but I got no doubts it happened in Montreal's schools, public and private, anyway, "private", the fact the government still finances private schools sickens me, I remember when one of my best friends who also was a skater/punk ass vandal who skipped school, went to another school, (mine) with a guy skipping school from mine, and they really fucked an unused class, it was a French class so every dictionary that are on every desk were thrown outside, they threw desks out the windows (breaking the windows at the same time) and ending up getting caught (and he had about 70 cd's, which he stole, remember back when CD's were in those long plastic cases in music stores, and when you bought one or wanted to listen to one before buying, the guy had to open it a key, well he stole one of those keys, went there on a wednesday night when there was no one and managed to steal 100 punk/hardcore/metal cd's at once, I don't know how he pulled that, anyway, I thought it was an amusing story, he's also the guy who later turned me to psychedelics and hash (we still got afghan hash which was awesome before really great typical canadian weed became cheap as hell).
Well this guy was kicked out of the whole regional school board, I don't know if you guys have that in the US, it's a actually a column of the government, people have to vote in this, but it's almost only people working in the field who bother, 10% of the population turn outs, and in very large cities like Montreal, there's probably 15 school boards, they oversee a number of schools and have their own exams, especially the before xmas exams were "commission scolaire" exams, which were a tad harder than anything the teacher would make for us. Well, he couldn't wear blue jeans, so all the kids going to the "Séminaire", seminar, although the teachers were not priests anymore, that wasn't allowed, only orthodox hassidic recluse jews have that special accommodation people go batshit about regarding the few muslims we have (they have to speak french to be moved into Quebec), so at least they come from countries that had wars a long time ago and are stable now or never really had wars, just rich parents who spoke french, from Lebanon, Syria (pre-war), Algeria, Tunisia. All of em who are born here or were 2-3 when they got here integrated 100%, all of those I know anyway. That's different from say the Ukrainian area in Montreal where I lived for a while, Ukrainian flags everywhere, they owned all the corner-stores, ya know, not gas stations, just whatever else is there, beer, milk, bread, whatever, they all acted like idiots, once I got a bit iffy when one had trouble understanding what I was saying, although he was perfectly speaking french, like almost everybody living in Montreal, you gotta be bilingual, trilingual if outside the country like them. The guy asked me "do you wanna fight me or what?" and I was like no man, just understand what I'm saying, he didn't understand what a fucking "blague" which means a joke, but also is the word for pouches of loose tobacco. And when I went back to packages, the guy was going straight for those things, when I'd say, give me an Export A Blue, he'd go for the Export A Blue pouches...sigh.
Scatter brained just-woke up comments, I know, believe me, I woke up all twisted up in my very expensive (but slowly dying

) ergonomic computer chair, after I woke up from a really scary nightmare, where I could, suddenly take control and get myself out of it, but it took about 4 times, and when I woke up, my neck and spin hurt so bad, I had a ketorolac (only nsaid worth shit, painkilling equal to morphine, not fun, but useful), Toradol in pill form, before that I only ever had Toradol as injections when I had the misfortune of testicular entanglement or whatever, at first they thought it was epididymytist (infection of the cord going from your balls), had that once too, life kick me in the balls a lot...and no it's not an std, if you look it up on Wikipedia, they don't even understand how it happens really. Like the Sarcoidosis (yeah, fuck you House, it's what I had when I had to use that creepy Spiriva pill crushing strange inhaler for 5 years, thankfully it only lasted 7 years and was at its worst only for one, but it's your lung cells fighting against themselves and it can spread, and give strange skin plaques (thankfully didn't get em, most common second thing it does), it can move into the brain, the heart, the spleen, the liver. Thankfully, if it moved in my heart (I had to take verapamil for way fast heartbeat when I was 25 to 28, they had no explanation for it until the lung doc decided to give me the expensive (I had to pay a bit) sarcoidosis test and yep, I had it, my blood turned pink when put through some testings where they add things to a sample. Anyway that's gone, it's what explains how long it took for me to be over with college, I could only go part-time for a good while.
Alright rambling out. Private schools paid by my taxes and even people who don't pay taxes because they make less than a certain amount of money, they still pay the 9,9976% provincial sales tax + federal sales tax at 5%. Other provinces got it better, one has no sales tax, Alberta, but everything is more expensive in any province west of mine. This british dude I know online couldn't believe it I could get a 24 pack of drinkable but not awesome beer for 21,95 +tax. Although they raised tax on cigs 4 times since 2012 and twice for alcohol because of the Austerity economics only us in North America are under. We're the most taxed people (outside California) in North America and they throw us Austerity bullshit, thankfully unions are powerful as fuck here so they had to back down a little, but they can and do impose what they want at the provincial level through "Special Laws", they did that with the illegal Law 78 during the huge student strike (we even made world news during that spring/summer of 2012, yay), which even the UN felt they had to send a special envoy to speak with our Prime Minister of then, Law 78 made it illegal to protest on any government property (so universities were out) and the whole strike was about the ridiculous 75% increase per semester they wanted to impose on us when we're signatory to an international pact where we pledged in 1983 to have as a goal 0 dollar free university. Which is NOT a pipedream, remove all of Hillary Clinton's illegal money and it could fund the whole US+ Canada hah. But yeah, fuck paying for private schools, way back when my friend got kicked out of the regional schoolboard even if he's a genius (literally, he's a genius, the guy lacked motivation, but he made it, the guy laughed as he got 98% in Calculus III and got 100% for practically all classes from grade 1 to 10. His parents had to pay 1300 dollars per semester then, thankfully his dad who got him out of trouble all the time cos he's a rich regional powerful lawyer, who actually got him forced back into the school board, when the private school kicked him out...brought some microdots and weed at a Six Flag like (I think it's motherfucking owned by Six Flags now...uggh) La Ronde amusement park in Montreal on a school trip. People who got enough money to pay for private school (and who also think it's better, which at least his liberal dad did not think so, he went there because he was forced to), shouldn't be subsidized, exact same fucking amount as public schools. You know, I have to pay School Tax even if I have no children only because I own property.
Yes..this rant was caused by me receiving the bill from the school board....1780 dollars, there's 2 primary schools close to my place and they have avout 50% occupancy...that worries me, we went so against the forced huge families the Vatican imposed on our grandmothers (my mom has 9 siblings, dad has 4), but now we got 0,6 children per couple.
@ksa, wow, you were making sense until the end, ever heard of GAIPAC and how the US is forced into giving 3.5 billion a year to Israel and Obama just gave them 25 billions last month, what the fuck for? And Germany, oh you're so sowwy, you're GIVING Israel submarines that can be equipped with nukes, good going Puttanesca Merkel.